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The First PCD Meeting is on sept 20th click here for details
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March 2005
Report on Domestic Partnership Benefits
PCD Inclusion Sub-Committee
Full report (PDF)
Appendix 1 (PDF)
Appendix 2 (PDF)
Appendix 3 (PDF)
2005 University-Wide Diversity Plan Task Force Report to the President
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report (PDF)
The President's Commission on Diversity adopted bylaws on August 7, 2004
Click here to view PCD bylaws (PDF)
PCD Establishes New Resource Library (updated in Oct. 2006)
Click here for full list of materials available for use (PDF)
UKArt Museum
Development Officer Amy Nelson accepted the award for the UK Art Museum, which has brought art to the campus and community for 30 years. During that tenure, its mission has been to preserve, present, and interpret the best of the art of all cultures and peoples, and to educate students and the public about art and its cultural context. The first directors and curators saw a need for a richer and broader representation from the world of art. Priscilla Colt, the first director added African, pre-Columbian, and Native American works, including a Northwest Coast Totem Pole, as well as three magnificent Japanese screens. William Hennessey collected works by Appalachian artist David Lucas, who painted a series documenting a day in the life of a coal miner. Harriet Fowler’s tenure saw the addition of a rich photography collection that documented all the diversity of American culture. From Iranian ceramics to Peruvian textiles, the art collection now holds over 4,000 objects of art that are original documents of their culture. The unit has employed partnerships, marketing efforts and education outreach to bring in new audiences, young and old, rural and urban, with interests from quilts to Old Masters. Created in the mid-1980s, the school tour program brings thousands of schoolchildren a year to see art from another country, another culture, another time. This early exposure to ideas of another culture is an invaluable way of opening minds to a diverse approach to learning. This unit also engages in museum art talks, which are content-specific educational requirements for K-12 and are in much demand by teachers in urban and suburban areas of Fayette County, the six bordering counties, and several non-bordering counties. According to one nominator, the unit is a tremendous resource for teaching about cultural traditions and artistic achievements from all parts of the world.